Do you ever feel like you and/or your team are ‘under water’ and don’t know why? You may be experiencing change saturation. Change saturation occurs when the threshold between capacity for change and the demands of implementing change is crossed. When this happens, people can experience a range of symptoms from confusion and frustration to physical impact. It can also … [Read more...]
5 Effective Ways to Handle Change in the Workplace
Change is inevitable, especially in today’s workplace. Companies are always striving to implement new methods to increase development and revenues while downsizing. For most people, change and adversity are difficult paths to traverse, particularly where challenges may indisputably reshape career goals and lifestyle. Fears of job losses or demotion are tangible. However, … [Read more...]
The Winds of Change
Just when you think you have it all worked out; when you know exactly what the next few months of your life are gonna look like, a Southern wind blows in and changes direction, without the convenience of the weatherman giving you a heads up. That's what happened to me in a short twelve hour period last Tuesday. The announcement was made that the company I've been working … [Read more...]
Leadership and Change
It was a planned change. Nothing like changes that occur when a hurricane blows your home away or a toxic dump makes it impossible to live a healthy life where you once had a home. So, why bother writing about it? Maybe it is just my way of connecting my own life dots. Maybe it is to say that just because it is not a dramatic and life altering change it still has its bitter … [Read more...]
Women, Leadership and Are We There Yet?
Big question is “Where is there?” or even better “Where is here”? How do we know when change has really taken hold? How do we know when we, as women, have found what we want in terms of equality at work? First, some thoughts about change and how it happens. In our culture we have become so addicted to instant everything that we expect change at the drop of a hat. It just … [Read more...]